Al Gore's Son arrested going 100MPH in a PRIUS!

[poopiebottoms]

Just saw this on CNN. I will look for a link.

Al Gore's son was arrested for possesion of weed and prescription pills while driving his Prius 100 MPH.

Who knew these things could go that fast?

[jagsfans]

Well at least he wasnt hypocritical and was driving a Prius.

[BeerBelly]

ooooo whata rebel

[MrBogey]

Gore's son's been popped several times for going insanely fast and smoking weed. It's kind of not suprising.

[peewee]

i have done worse and never been on cnn... poor kid

[NuttyJim]

those cars are gay....I always picture it as making the noise the jetsons car makes when it's going down the road.

[wes mantooth]

Al Gore's son was arrested for possesion of weed and prescription pills while driving his Prius 100 MPH.


Were the pills AZT?



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[burky79]

those cars are gay....I always picture it as making the noise the jetsons car makes when it's going down the road.

wow. thats a great idea. the boys should have a sound clip of the jetsons car and play it when steve comes in the room. since he owns a hybrid it would be ironic and funny. call the show, get that on asap!

[ginaf20697]

How the hell does this fat fuck even FIT into a Prius?!?!?!?

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/images/07/04/stories.goreson.jpg

[BravoSierra]

Well at least he wasnt hypocritical and was driving a Prius.

What.... a Prius is GOOD for the environment? That fat fuck should be on a bike.

[YourAmishDaddy]

A fitting end would have been if he wrapped that fucking thing around a tree.

How about this for green power you cunt.

[d0uche_n0zzle]

How the hell does this fat fuck even FIT into a Prius?!?!?!?

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/images/07/04/stories.goreson.jpg


If the formerly-fat-fuck-Steve-the-C can fit, any fat fuck can too. :icon_mrgr

Bet the kid has to take all those pills to keep himself from being bored to death by his old man.

[MrBogey]

Yea, if Al Gore Jr was my dad I'd be grinding down pills like mentos.

[YourAmishDaddy]

He crapped out both ways. He's a fat fuck, and looks like a waterhead.

[CM Mark]

Yea, if Al Gore Jr was my dad I'd be grinding down pills like mentos.

You mean dropping them into Diet COke bottles?

[MrBogey]

You mean dropping them into Diet COke bottles?

I don't think this guy goes anywhere near anything diet.

[Southtown]

I read at that at high speeds hybrids gas milage is just as shitty as any other car. He's is causing global warming. What to you say to that AALLL?

[d0uche_n0zzle]

What kind of idiot speeds when carrying a shitload of questionable items? "whaa"

[Chino Kapone]

What kind of idiot speeds when carrying a shitload of questionable items? "whaa"

the kind whose parents are former presidential candidates

[Special Eddie]

I can't wait to here Steve brag about this when the boys come back.

[Fr. Dougal]

http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:8VQhhswgC0oJ:clubs.ccsu.edu/Recorder/editorial/print_item.asp%3FNewsID%3D188+prius+environment+hu mmer&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a
March 7, 2007
Prius Outdoes Hummer in Environmental Damage
By Chris Demorro
Staff Writer

The Toyota Prius has become the flagship car for those in our society so environmentally conscious that they are willing to spend a premium to show the world how much they care. Unfortunately for them, their ultimate ‘green car’ is the source of some of the worst pollution in North America; it takes more combined energy per Prius to produce than a Hummer.

Before we delve into the seedy underworld of hybrids, you must first understand how a hybrid works. For this, we will use the most popular hybrid on the market, the Toyota Prius.

The Prius is powered by not one, but two engines: a standard 76 horsepower, 1.5-liter gas engine found in most cars today and a battery- powered engine that deals out 67 horsepower and a whooping 295ft/lbs of torque, below 2000 revolutions per minute. Essentially, the Toyota Synergy Drive system, as it is so called, propels the car from a dead stop to up to 30mph. This is where the largest percent of gas is consumed. As any physics major can tell you, it takes more energy to get an object moving than to keep it moving. The battery is recharged through the braking system, as well as when the gasoline engine takes over anywhere north of 30mph. It seems like a great energy efficient and environmentally sound car, right?

You would be right if you went by the old government EPA estimates, which netted the Prius an incredible 60 miles per gallon in the city and 51 miles per gallon on the highway. Unfortunately for Toyota, the government realized how unrealistic their EPA tests were, which consisted of highway speeds limited to 55mph and acceleration of only 3.3 mph per second. The new tests which affect all 2008 models give a much more realistic rating with highway speeds of 80mph and acceleration of 8mph per second. This has dropped the Prius’s EPA down by 25 percent to an average of 45mpg. This now puts the Toyota within spitting distance of cars like the Chevy Aveo, which costs less then half what the Prius costs.

However, if that was the only issue with the Prius, I wouldn’t be writing this article. It gets much worse.

Building a Toyota Prius causes more environmental damage than a Hummer that is on the road for three times longer than a Prius. As already noted, the Prius is partly driven by a battery which contains nickel. The nickel is mined and smelted at a plant in Sudbury, Ontario. This plant has caused so much environmental damage to the surrounding environment that NASA has used the ‘dead zone’ around the plant to test moon rovers. The area around the plant is devoid of any life for miles.

The plant is the source of all the nickel found in a Prius’ battery and Toyota purchases 1,000 tons annually. Dubbed the Superstack, the plague-factory has spread sulfur dioxide across northern Ontario, becoming every environmentalist’s nightmare.

“The acid rain around Sudbury was so bad it destroyed all the plants and the soil slid down off the hillside,” said Canadian Greenpeace energy-coordinator David Martin during an interview with Mail, a British-based newspaper.

All of this would be bad enough in and of itself; however, the journey to make a hybrid doesn’t end there. The nickel produced by this disastrous plant is shipped via massive container ship to the largest nickel refinery in Europe. From there, the nickel hops over to China to produce ‘nickel foam.’ From there, it goes to Japan. Finally, the completed batteries are shipped to the United States, finalizing the around-the-world trip required to produce a single Prius battery. Are these not sounding less and less like environmentally sound cars and more like a farce?

Wait, I haven’t even got to the best part yet.

When you pool together all the combined energy it takes to drive and build a Toyota Prius, the flagship car of energy fanatics, it takes almost 50 percent more energy than a Hummer - the Prius’s arch nemesis.

Through a study by CNW Marketing called “Dust to Dust,” the total combined energy is taken from all the electrical, fuel, transportation, materials (metal, plastic, etc) and hundreds of other factors over the expected lifetime of a vehicle. The Prius costs an average of $3.25 per mile driven over a lifetime of 100,000 miles - the expected lifespan of the Hybrid.

The Hummer, on the other hand, costs a more fiscal $1.95 per mile to put on the road over an expected lifetime of 300,000 miles. That means the Hummer will last three times longer than a Prius and use less combined energy doing it.

So, if you are really an environmentalist - ditch the Prius. Instead, buy one of the most economical cars available - a Toyota Scion xB. The Scion only costs a paltry $0.48 per mile to put on the road. If you are still obsessed over gas mileage - buy a Chevy Aveo and fix that lead foot.

One last fun fact for you: it takes five years to offset the premium price of a Prius. Meaning, you have to wait 60 months to save any money over a non-hybrid car because of lower gas expenses.

[yellowstonesteve]

A fitting end would have been if he wrapped that fucking thing around a tree.

How about this for green power you cunt.


that would be the fitting end???
:martianvirus:

[Quexul]

I can't wait, though, for the Gore critics to start saying that the fact that he has a son with a potential drug problem disqualifies him from holding any office in the future, or invalidates what he says otherwise.

Personal responsibility means just that: Al Gore Jr. and Rush Limbaugh are responsible for their own drug problems, not their parents. {Prof. Jonathan, aka Quexul}

[Redding]

How the hell does this fat fuck even FIT into a Prius?!?!?!?

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/images/07/04/stories.goreson.jpg

i didnt know Al gores son was Chris Burke from Life goes on

[NightStalker3]

i didnt know Al gores son was Chris Burke from Life goes on

Or a Down's version of Matt Damon

[Arch Stanton]

This is a riddle right? The car was on an Autocar Train.

That is how it did 100 MPH.

[PCLoadLetter]

This is a riddle right? The car was on an Autocar Train.

That is how it did 100 MPH.
A Prius can do 100mph, and then some. Figure 105mph top speed, which may be the max based upon speed-limiting circuitry.

Believe it or not, the humble Hyundai Sonata can do 147mph (okay, 144mph on flat ground).
http://www.caranddriver.com/carnews/12563/the-147-mph-hyundai-sonata.html

[BIV]

There is an electric car drag racing curcuit (sp?) with cars reaching near the speeds of regular drags.

[SKEPTIC]

:D

Irish bookie pays out as cops bust 'wrong' Gore
Fri Jul 6, 2007 3:44PM BST

DUBLIN (Reuters) - An Irish bookmaker who offered odds of 14/1 that Al Gore would be the next high profile American to be arrested paid out on Friday after police detained the former Vice President's son, also named Al.

Having not specified which Al bettors could back, Paddy Power said some of the 50 or so people who placed money on the rank outsider being arrested had been quick to claim their winnings.

"We got a good stoning thanks to the Vice President's son," the company said in a statement. The "bizarre coincidence" would cost it more than 10,000 euros (6,775 pounds).

Al Gore III, 24, was stopped for speeding on Wednesday and arrested for drug possession after a sheriff's deputy smelled marijuana and searched his car.

Paddy Power, which is well known in Ireland for wacky publicity stunts and for offering bizarre and sometimes controversial bets, offered odds on July 3 that had made Paris Hilton the 2/1 favourite to be arrested.

It had ranked President George W. Bush and Bill Gates among the outsiders on odds of 33/1 and 50/1 respectively.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKL0668858220070706

[roche]

If my Geo Metro can do 95 with its crappy 45 hp, then a Prius can break 100.

Yes, I do drive a Metro. Fuck you. I don't care. It gets me to work and I can drive all week on 20 bucks at 3 dollars a gallon.

[SKEPTIC]

If my Geo Metro can do 95 with its crappy 45 hp, then a Prius can break 100.

Yes, I do drive a Metro. Fuck you. I don't care. It gets me to work and I can drive all week on 20 bucks at 3 dollars a gallon.

All you got to do Roche is use this quote from the movie "Be Cool" (sequel to "Get Shorty"):D

Chili Palmer: [about a Honda Insight] It's the Cadillac of hybrids.
Martin Weir: But what about speed?
Chili Palmer: If you're important, people will wait.

[roche]

All you got to do Roche is use this quote from the movie "Be Cool" (sequel to "Get Shorty"):D

Nah, the car can keep up, it just takes it a minute or two to build up the speed to get there. ;)

[d0uche_n0zzle]

Hope nobody hits you in that tin can.

[Sprite]

I'm surprised the cops didn't just let him go with a global warning.